Rethinking the Barents Sea with BAR International

Rethinking the Barents Sea exposes a medium that connects the Norwegian and Russian territories of the Barents Region without pointing out any visual borders.

Under the auspice of Sergey Terentiev, a group of 10 artists and musicians from Northern Norway and Karelia spend one week at the only accessible village on the Russian Barents Sea coastline (Teriberka) and one week at a lighthouse in Sør-Varanger (Bøkfjordfyret). The artists’ are tasked with creating a book about the Barents Sea – with the book acting as a metaphor for collected emotions, memories, stories and reflections.

The result of the project will refer to artistic processes that actively attempt to see art as a thinking process and pose the question – how do we deal with a border which is not visible, not touchable but existing on maps?